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Ice Age shelter high up in the Blue Mountains reveals Aboriginal heritage from 20,000 years ago
New research indicates Dargan Shelter was occupied as early as the last Ice Age and repeatedly visited during this cold ...
Stone tools from a cave on South Africa's coast speak of life at the end of the Ice Age
The Robberg is one of southern Africa's most distinctive and widespread stone tool technologies. Robberg tools—which we found ...
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A Jar of Fossil Bones Long Stored at a Museum Led Scientists to Discover a Goblin-Like Lizard From 76 Million Years Ago
Fossils described in a new study speak to a previously unknown large-bodied lizard diversity that existed alongside dinosaurs ...
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Artifacts Discovered in 20,000-Year-Old Ice Age ‘Ice Cave’ Could Rewrite Human History
Artifacts found in a 20,000-year-old ice age 'ice cave' in Australia's remote Blue Mountains named Dargan Shelter could ...
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Arctic permafrost is thawing fast. That affects us all.
Twigs, other plant matter, and Ice Age animal parts—bison jaws, horse femurs, mammoth bones—spilled onto a beach that sucked at Zimov’s boots. “I love Duvanny Yar,” he said as he yanked ...